Download e-book for iPad: Charles Austin Beard: The Return of the Master Historian of by Richard Drake

Richard Drake offers a brand new interpretation of Charles Austin Beard’s lifestyles and paintings. the main American historian and a number one public highbrow within the first 1/2 the 20 th century, Beard participated actively within the debates approximately American politics and overseas coverage surrounding the 2 global wars. Drake takes this recognized man’s existence and rewrites his highbrow biography by way of putting the ecu size of Beard’s suggestion on the middle. This radical swap of serious concentration permits Drake to right past biographers’ oversights and, in Charles Austin Beard, current a much more nuanced appreciation for Beard’s lifestyles than we've learn before.

Drake proposes a recovery of Beard’s expert popularity, which he misplaced largely due to his tremendous unpopular competition to America’s intervention in global struggle II. Drake analyzes the phases of Beard’s improvement as a historian and critic: his function as an highbrow chief within the revolutionary stream, the aid that he gave to the reason for American intervention in global warfare I, and his next revisionist repudiation of Wilsonian beliefs and include of non-interventionism within the lead-up to global struggle II. a lot of his dire predictions concerning the inevitable effects of pre-World battle II American overseas coverage have come to move. Drake exhibits that, as americans tally the ruinous costs--both monetary and moral—of nation-building and casual empire, the existence and paintings of this prophet of heritage benefit a radical reexamination.

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